Prasiae
Prasiae or Prasiai (
Name of the city
The name of the town was derived by the inhabitants from the noise of the waves (Βράζειν). Pausanias relates a story, found nowhere else in Greece, that Semele, after giving birth to her son by Zeus, was discovered by Cadmus and put with Dionysus into a chest, which was washed up by the waves at Prasiae. Semele, who was no longer alive when found, received a splendid funeral, but the Prasiaeans brought up Dionysus and changed the name of their town from Oreiatae or Oreiatai (Ὀρειάταί) to Brasiae.[7][a]
Later history
It was an important
Modern location
It is located near Paralio Leonidi.[15][16]
Footnotes
References
- ^ a b Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 2.56.
- ^ a b Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii p. 368. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ a b Aristophanes, Pac. 242
- ^ a b Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax p. 17
- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.17.10.
- ^ a b Pausanias (1918). "24.3". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
- ^ Pausanias (1918). "24.3". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.-4.
- ^ Larson, Jennifer. Greek Heroine Cults. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. pp. 94-95.
- ^ Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 6.105.
- ^ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 4.36.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. viii. p. 374. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Pausanias (1918). "21.7". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library., 3.24.3
- ^ Pausanias (1918). "24.4". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.-5
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Prasiae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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